Africa-Press – Angola. Thirty-nine inmates from the Cambiote Prison, Huambo province, benefited Wednesday, from various essential goods, donated by employees of the Administration of the Municipality with the same name.
The batch of goods, consisting essentially of personal hygiene material, was delivered as part of the March Women’s Day.
On the occasion, the assistant municipal administrator of Huambo for the Political and Social area, Marta Mendes Teixeira, said that the activity aimed to entertain and show solidarity with the inmates, in this month dedicated to women, despite being in conflict with the law. .
“With this act, we seek to demonstrate our care and affection for these women, so that they feel valued in society, despite being deprived of their freedom”, he stressed.
Therefore, he appealed to them to become more and more involved in activities aimed at their re-education and professionalization, so that, after serving their sentences, they can fully integrate themselves into society.
In turn, the head of the women’s area of Cambiote Prison, chief prison inspector Adelina Mendonça Lumbo, praised the gesture, stressing that it will help to mitigate some of the inmates’ difficulties.
According to the person in charge, the establishment’s female prison population has benefited, within the framework of its re-education and re-socialization policies, from different training courses, with emphasis on cooking and pastry, so that, as soon as they reach freedom, they can develop these activities for the their proper reintegration into society.
The Cambiote Penitentiary Establishment, inaugurated in 2012, with a capacity to accommodate 820 inmates, currently houses 1,225 prisoners, of which 704 are convicts and 521 are detained.
The program of the “Março Mulher” event, which opened on the 1st of March, under the motto “The active participation of women in information technologies towards social prosperity”, provides for lectures, social activities, excursions to historic sites, tourist and cultural events, as well as radio debates.
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